Can i access user-defined custom variables, present in GA, through GAPI and get results to be displayed on my webpage

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We are trying to add custom variables to GA to track certain features and I was 
wondering if I will be able to get the results/values of these custom variables 
through GAPI just like how we are getting values for pageViews or Visits. Any 
info on this?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jvsiva2...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2010 at 6:09

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What's the status on this?

Original comment by i...@kryap.com on 6 May 2011 at 12:16

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I have tried to retrieve a custom variable - without success.

Here is my request call, which includes customVarValue1.

...
$ga->requestReportData(ga_profile_id, array('visitorType', 'customVarValue1', 
'networkDomain', 'hostname', 'pagePath', 'date', 'hour'), 
array('pageviews','visits'));

No results are returned.

But if I exclude customVarValue1, I get results.

Original comment by colin.go...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2011 at 3:05

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Hi,
I am using GAPI version 1.3

I have added a custom variable in GA code like this:

_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 1,  'Member', '<?php echo $member_id; ?>, 3]);

And its working fine..

Now I need to fetch the data from GA: so my requst to GA is like this:

https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/data?
ids=XXXXXXXXXXX&
dimensions=ga:customVarValue1,ga:pagePath&
metrics=ga:pageviews,ga:uniquePageviews,ga:bounces,ga:exits&
filters=ga:pagePath=@event_details.php;ga:customVarValue1=2004036442&
start-date=2011-04-20&
end-date=2011-05-04&
max-results=50

I need to fetch data from GA where pagePath=@event_details.php AND 
ga:customVarValue1=2004036442

But this is not resulting anything...

When I changed the filters in the following why its resulting all the pagePath 
= event_details.php and its working fine..
filters=ga:pagePath=@event_details.php

but I need get the page path with the perticular member ID that is why I used 
the condition as below:
filters=ga:pagePath=@event_details.php;ga:customVarValue1=2004036442&

I have also tried like this and this is also not working

https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/data?
ids=XXXXXXXXXXX&
dimensions=ga:customVarValue1,ga:pagePath&
metrics=ga:pageviews,ga:uniquePageviews,ga:bounces,ga:exits&
filters=ga:pagePath=@event_details.php&
segment=dynamic::ga:customVarValue1==1041533899&
start-date=2011-04-20&
end-date=2011-05-04&
max-results=50

So any one have idea about this?? Please help me.. 

Original comment by contactv...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2011 at 11:21

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You should be able to retrieve custom variables as long as custom variables 
have been captured in the date range you sent.

As far as filtering by them, this is a bit of a bug in the GAPI class.  To fix 
it you can either (as others have suggested) prefix your customVarValue{n} and 
customVarName{n} values with "ga:".  For example: "ga:customVarValue1 == 
myvariable" instead of "customVarValue1 == myvariable".

Or you can open up the gapi.class.php file and edit line 235, changing:

$filter = preg_replace('/(&&\s*|\|\|\s*|^)([a-z]+)(\s*' . $valid_operators . 
')/i','$1ga:$2$3',$filter);

to:

$filter = preg_replace('/(&&\s*|\|\|\s*|^)([a-z0-9]+)(\s*' . $valid_operators . 
')/i','$1ga:$2$3',$filter);

Just added a 0-9 to the regular expression character class so it will properly 
prefix the custom variable filters.

Original comment by char...@dwstudios.net on 23 Feb 2012 at 10:40